Vol 42 No 25 | FRANCEAFRICA Oil slick 21st December 2001 Legal sources in Paris say the long, venomous investigations into oil company Elf-Aquitaine will be buried before May's presidential election. Elf, merged in 1998-9 with Franco-Bel...
Vol 63 No 7 | AFRICAEUROPE Continental ties tested in a zero-sum game 31st March 2022 Western diplomats in Africa are grappling with how to respond to the return of geopolitics after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine The rumbling crisis over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has shown diplomats just how far Europe's relations with African states have deteriorated and how quickly both continents have...
Vol 60 No 18 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Backhander back at you 13th September 2019 Frustrated by their inability to prosecute the foreign recipients of bribes as well as those that pay them, United States lawmakers are seeking to plug the gap. A bill introduced i...
Vol 43 No 18 | AFRICADEVELOPMENT Water music 13th September 2002 The much-maligned World Summit on Sustainable Development may have pulled off one success, not so much in endorsing the goal of halving the number of those who lack access to water...
Vol 52 No 3 | AFRICABRITAIN Less bashing for bribers 4th February 2011 UK businesses lobbying against the new Bribery Act seem to be having some success (see Confidential Agenda, week ending 28 January). The government has postponed implementation o...